Stuart Cooke

If Cooke's previous book, Lyre, urged us towards the "more" of the more-than-human world, then The Grass is Greener Over Your Grave returns to the "human" end of that spectrum—though always with an eye to the porosity of the human and its immersion in waves of land, language, dream, and sea. Typically wide-ranging in form, this new collection develops Cooke's...

The essays of Apples & Oranges are selected from a decade of sustained enquiry into the possibilities for human and more-than-human poetics in the Anthropocene. Drawing on Cooke's experiences as a poet, critic, traveller, and translator, the landscapes are predominantly Antarctic, Australasian, and North & South American. New continental, intellectual, and affective formations emerge here as hybrids of memoir, travelogue,...